Jošt Bartol
@bartolj.bsky.social
Researching the intersections between digital technologies, privacy, and inequalities. Centre for Social Informatics at University of Ljubljana.
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Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...
How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi
The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.
nymag.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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In another of my semi-regular posts, for those who have recently gotten reviewer comments on qualitative studies (eg, #cscw2025) & want to know how to respond, check out this document that currently has 13 types of critiques of qual methods and ideas for responding.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...
docs.google.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In another of my semi-regular posts, for those who have recently gotten reviewer comments on qualitative studies (eg, #cscw2025) & want to know how to respond, check out this document that currently has 13 types of critiques of qual methods and ideas for responding.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AI is speedrunning the social media era by optimizing chatbots for engagement, user feedback, time spent.
Evidence is mounting that this poses unintended risks, includ. chats from peer-reviewed research, OpenAI's "sycophancy" debacle, & Character ai lawsuits www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Evidence is mounting that this poses unintended risks, includ. chats from peer-reviewed research, OpenAI's "sycophancy" debacle, & Character ai lawsuits www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
AI is speedrunning the social media era by optimizing chatbots for engagement, user feedback, time spent.
Evidence is mounting that this poses unintended risks, includ. chats from peer-reviewed research, OpenAI's "sycophancy" debacle, & Character ai lawsuits www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Evidence is mounting that this poses unintended risks, includ. chats from peer-reviewed research, OpenAI's "sycophancy" debacle, & Character ai lawsuits www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Happy to share that iCS just published our paper on information privacy concerns! We take a deep (qualitative) dive into people's privacy concerns on the internet. We consider vertical (institutional) and horizontal (social) concerns and propose a revised definition. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Dimensions of vertical and horizontal information privacy concerns: a qualitative reassessment and revised definition
Nowadays, the use of the internet is widespread, despite many people being concerned about their information privacy when using it. While the concept of information privacy concerns (IPCs) is centr...
doi.org
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Happy to share that iCS just published our paper on information privacy concerns! We take a deep (qualitative) dive into people's privacy concerns on the internet. We consider vertical (institutional) and horizontal (social) concerns and propose a revised definition. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
AI can't correctly summarise news, and now imagine that a reviewer of your manuscript is making decision based on AI tools ... www.bbc.com/news/article...
AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
AI can't correctly summarise news, and now imagine that a reviewer of your manuscript is making decision based on AI tools ... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Trump’s PCLOB Purge Risks Banning Meta, ExTwitter, Google, And Even Truth Social From Europe" from @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...
Trump’s PCLOB Purge Risks Banning Meta, ExTwitter, Google, And Even Truth Social From Europe
In his latest “drain the swamp” move that will actually flood the entire ecosystem, Trump demanded the Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) resi…
www.techdirt.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Trump’s PCLOB Purge Risks Banning Meta, ExTwitter, Google, And Even Truth Social From Europe" from @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...
So glad our paper got accepted to #ICA25! Can't wait to meet everyone (and I also really wanted to visit Denver). Anyway, the study investigates the influence of personality traits (Big five + disintegration) on internet users' vertical and horizontal privacy concerns. Come by if interested!
January 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
So glad our paper got accepted to #ICA25! Can't wait to meet everyone (and I also really wanted to visit Denver). Anyway, the study investigates the influence of personality traits (Big five + disintegration) on internet users' vertical and horizontal privacy concerns. Come by if interested!
More "thinking time"? - sign me right up!
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 20, 2024 at 5:48 PM
More "thinking time"? - sign me right up!
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New post on The 100% CI! We unravel a series of mysterious research misconduct cases that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadow: Rogue RA
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA
The 100% CI unravels serial cases of mysterious research misconduct that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadows: Rogue RA
www.the100.ci
December 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
New post on The 100% CI! We unravel a series of mysterious research misconduct cases that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadow: Rogue RA
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
Organizing a session on "Methodological aspects of privacy measurement in surveys" at the ESRA 2025 conference (July 14-18, 2025, Utrecht, The Netherlands). Session details www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2025/ses.... Submission details www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/u.... Welcome!
Call for Abstracts
The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) is the leading professional organisation of survey researchers in Europe, with members from the academic, government, non-profit and commercial sectors
www.europeansurveyresearch.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Organizing a session on "Methodological aspects of privacy measurement in surveys" at the ESRA 2025 conference (July 14-18, 2025, Utrecht, The Netherlands). Session details www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2025/ses.... Submission details www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/u.... Welcome!